Those are so useful that I wrote trivial shell functions that do the same under ...

timf · on June 27, 2023

Since I'm bouncing between OSX and Linux a lot, I have a shell script with the same name on each that boils down to:

  if [ `uname` == "Darwin" ]; then
    pbcopy
  else
    xsel --clipboard
  fi

cerved · on June 27, 2023

why not just alias?

timf · on June 28, 2023

Could be an alias, I have a limited set of aliases for each type of system. But I keep a repository of hundreds of personal shell scripts and it fit better there.